The best books of 2025. The Favorites by Layne Fargo and My Friends by Fredrik Backman

This is it!

The last day of my Blogmas 2025 and I come with my winners of the year, all categories mashed together!

I have two winners this year, I can’t choose between these two masterpieces!

They are equally exceptional to my eyes.

And as I already featured them in other categories, I will go with one or two quotes and the link to my complete review.

The Favorites by Layne Fargo!!!

“We used to joke that they were going to die in each other’s arms or kill each other with their bare hands. Nothing in between.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

My Friends by Fredrik Backman!!!

“Because it’s been a painfully short life, the blink of an eye, a single summer’s day. Ted’s chest hurts, like crying without oxygen, because grief does so many strange things to people, and one of those things is that we forget how to breathe. As if the body’s first instinct is to grieve itself to death. Soon Ted will stand up and discover that he’s forgotten how to walk too, that happens to us all when the love of our life falls asleep for the last time, because when the soul leaves the body, evidently the last thing it does is tie our shoelaces together. In the weeks following the death we trip over thin air. It’s the soul’s fault.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

Have you read these?

Thanks for reading.

Sophie